(The Center Square) – Tension between President Donald Trump and former Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Must escalated Thursday with two exchanging words over the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" that Musk opposes.

At an unrelated news conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Trump said he was disappointed in his former top aide for criticizing the bill.

"I'm very disappointed because Elon knew the inner workings of this bill better than almost anybody sitting here," Trump said. "He had no problem with it. All of a sudden he had a problem and he only developed the problem when he found out that we're going to have to cut the EV mandate because that's billions and billions of dollars, and it really is unfair."

Musk is the billionaire owner of EV manufacturer Tesla.

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